Global attitudes to climate change
Category: public science
The BBC have just released the results of a global survey of attitudes to anthropogenic climate change, and it makes interesting reading.
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:00 AM • 2 Comments •
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Chris Rowan is a geologist specialising in the dark arts of paleomagnetism, and getting people to pay him to travel to exotic destinations for fieldwork. Having drilled up New Zealand during his PhD, and South Africa in his first post-doc, he now works at the University of Edinburgh.
Anne Jefferson has a love of all things water-related and blends hydrology, geomorphology, geology, and climate change in her work. She has a Ph.D. from Oregon State University and is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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The day my world stood still
Category: academic life
Error lies at the heart of science; but there are a number of different kinds of "wrong". An error in hindsight, where a past hypothesis of yours - perfectly reasonable at the time - is disproven by more accurate or...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 12:39 PM • 12 Comments •
Calling all geobloggers
Category: bloggery
The first Accretionary Wedge was a big success, with major kudos due to Brian (who is also celebrating his first blogiversary) for doing the necessary cat-herding to make it happen. Now discussion is underway to organising the next few editions...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 6:46 AM • 0 Comments •
September 26, 2007
At least one University department likes blogging, then
Category: academic life
Janet is about to submit her tenure dossier, a three ring binder which simultaneously manages to look imposingly thick and yet a rather flimsy thing on which to hang your academic destiny. It also has an interesting addition: a section...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 8:19 AM • 11 Comments •
September 25, 2007
Peru's new crater extra-terrestrial, but illness not
Category: geology
One of the main risks of our media-saturated world is that although events can make it onto our TV and computer screens with unrivaled speed, this does not necessarily mean we have any idea of what's actually going on, which...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 4:49 PM • 3 Comments •
Mars less wet than we thought?
Category: planets
Mars has a habit of disappointing us; exotic possibilities are presented to us, before fading away into nothingness when we look more closely. Percival Lowell's canals didn't survive close scrutiny, and now Phil reports that the merciless gaze of...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:09 AM • 1 Comments •
September post-doc carnival
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Pondering Fool is hosting this months collection. The theme is 'advice', and there's lots of the sage variety on offer....
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September 22, 2007
19th century geologists slandered again
Category: geology
Are folks at the University of Bristol intentionally trying to annoy me? In the very same week that I write about the abundant signs of old age in the rock record, they put out a press release which states: By...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:51 AM • 8 Comments •
September 21, 2007
Trilobites didn't go extinct...
Category: planets
...they just evolved into beings of pure electromagnetism and infested the sun. I know that we humans are prone to finding familiar patterns in weird places, but I have to say I find the claimed resemblance less than compelling. When...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 10:10 AM • 8 Comments •
September 20, 2007
How fast is the Arctic melting?
Category: climatology
Blockbuster headlines about the thawing of the North-West Passage are all very well, but you can't really assess the significance of the record low in Arctic summer sea-ice cover (as reported by both the European Space Agency and the National...
Posted by Chris Rowan at 11:54 AM • 7 Comments •
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